To make the celebration of Christmas Time 2012, Slovenia Post issued a set of two self-adhesive stamps feature the Christmas spirit. The issue stamps depict ‘Angelic singing heard in the heights’ and ‘Škofja Loka rural Nativity scenes’.
Angelic singing heard in the heights ...
The celebration of Christmas, the birth of Christ,became established by the mid-4th century, and along with Easter it now represents one of the biggest Christian festivals.
The celebration of Christmas, the birth of Christ,became established by the mid-4th century, and along with Easter it now represents one of the biggest Christian festivals.
The celebration of Christmas is therefore a much more recent custom than that of Easter, and represents an important family festivity marking the birth of Christ.
Christmas also marked the start of the year, and it was only Pope Innocent XII in 1691 who set 1 January as the beginning of the year, while 25 December remained Christ’s birthday.
Škofja Loka rural Nativity scenesNativity scenes or cribs are a stylized portrayal of Christ’s birth, and should not be equated with pictorial and sculptural depictions.
They are a relatively recent cultural phenomenon, since in earlier documentation they were supposedly only set up in the second half of the 16th century in Portugal.
Less than a hundred years later documents record the first Nativity scenes in Slovenia, specifically the Jesuit Church of St. James in Ljubljana.
Several types of Nativity scene and approaches to portraying Christ’s birth have become established. One such example is the Nativity scene with numerous wooden figures from the Škofja Loka area.
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